What's with the texture craze on redbubble?

Neil79

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Not my cup of tea either as you can take a photo and use corel painter essentials to make an image like that with little to no effort.
 
Personally, they are not my cup of tea either, and imo are an easy way to make your images look 'dated' in a short period of time when the fad moves along to it's next craze.
I simply don't see any of these pictures being able to last the test of time, as who 'really' likes out of fashion fake effects?
 
I can see why they're doing it. Its not just about taking a picture but imposing your own take on it.

1st one looks like a Japanese Silk or Watercolour
3rd one looks like something Led Zeppelin or Jethro Tull would have on an Album cover.
 
Ignore crazes. Stick with true processing and although the internet won't "OMG!!1" in response the photo will be timeless.

(Lomo, HDR, cross-processing, split-toning etc...)
 
robertgilbert86 said:
Ignore crazes. Stick with true processing and although the internet won't "OMG!!1" in response the photo will be timeless.

(Lomo, HDR, cross-processing, split-toning etc...)
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Indeed, ignore the fads and con, centrate on taking great photos rather than learning stupid PS tricks to sell your photos. When composition, design and subject excel the photo will be great when your grandchilden look at it.

These horrible fads like the fake tilt-shift garbage are just distractions.
 
Seams like they've added an effect to a normal photo to make it look different & hope it sells as a result. Granted it will probably sell better with this processing on a card than without, but is that because of the quality of the photo?
Notice how all the artists are female? Were they all in the same art class?
 
I was actually interested in photos heavily texture based when I first started, and planned on taking vast amounts of texture shots, purely for use in games. Then I thought it would be a novel concept for art. Then I decided it was pretentious pap and stopped doing it altogether :D

Looking at those photos, they're trying to go for the screen printing/fabric style pallet stuff that I used to do in art class in high school. It's actually quite nice in a lot of cases. Not my bag, and I'd rather see an actual pastel painting of that sort of thing myself.
 
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